DFI LANPARTY PRO875B Mainboard on i875P Chipset Review. Page 8

DFI Company has been very aggressive promoting its mainboards lately. Therefore we decided to review one of their recent solutions - the new LANPARTY mainboard on i875P chipset for Pentium 4 processors. Compared with the predecessor, this mainboard boasts the new CMOS Reloaded technology. Let’s find out what it is capable of.

Performance

When checking out the performance of the DFI LANPARTY PRO875B mainboard, I set its results against those of the ASUS P4C800 and ABIT IC7-MAX3. These two mainboards also feature the i875P chipset and have proven to be among the fastest platforms for modern Pentium 4 processors in our earlier tests. So we will see if DFI made its mainboard an efficient solution from the performance point of view, and if it provides the same speed as the popular solutions from ASUS and ABIT.

I ran all the tests in Microsoft Windows XP SP1; the BIOSes of the mainboards were set to maximum performance.

The following table lists the results shown by the mainboards in different applications:

ABIT IC7-MAX3

ASUS P4C800

DFI LANPARTY PRO875B

Business Winstone 2002

35.7

35.1

35.4

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2003

51.9

51.7

51.6

3DMark2001 SE, Default

17665

17671

17487

3DMark03, Default

6066

6065

6050

3DMark03, CPU Score

757

757

748

PCMark2002, Memory score

10333

10308

10070

Unreal Tournament 2003, dm-antalus, 1024x768x32

66.26

66.23

65.82

Quake3, four, 1024x768x32

464.6

464.5

456.2

Serious Sam 2, The Grand Cathedral, 1024x768x32

138.9

137.9

135.9

SiSoft Sandra 2002, RAM Buffered Bandwidth

5047

5051

4958

As you see, DFI LANPARTY PRO875B turns to be somewhat slower than the fastest i875P-based mainboards.

Conclusion

LANPARTY PRO875B from DFI is a well-made i875-based mainboard for your Socket478 processor. It is distinguishing features make it stand out among other solutions in several ways. First of all, it looks extraordinary, with its neon-colored slots. Secondly, the accessories include various stickers, cables, shields and other cute goodies. Thirdly, DFI LANPARTY PRO875B is just a high-quality product, very stable and boasting excellent overclocking opportunities.